Continental Subway with David Dichelle:
Playlist
from September 11, 2018

Tracks across a multilingual world, featuring this, that, and not infrequently the other. Broadcast live from the studios of Radio Blau in Leipzig, Germany, with the first hour simulcast over the local airwaves.

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:17pm
Webhamster Henry:
That a nice map : similar to www.ventusky.com
I see it has lots of extra layers.
It's kind of stunning that a whole world of info can be rendered on your screen in different layers, in appropriately real time.

Tue. 9/11/18 4:22pm
David D:
I do like maps - a lot! And thanks for that one, Henry. 70°F here now, apparently.

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:24pm
northguineahills:
Ground Zero does a great remix/cover of Those Were The Days/

Tue. 9/11/18 4:27pm
David D:
Yes, there have been many covers of the old Russian song, including the most well-known one by Mary Hopkin.

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:28pm
Webhamster Henry:
These are the days the will be the the days that were those.

Tue. 9/11/18 4:31pm
David D:
And those will be the days that won't be these or those.

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:37pm
northguineahills:
...until a massive gaseous giant rogue planet passes near us and its gravity flings us out of the solar system, then we'll have no days....

Tue. 9/11/18 4:37pm
Gary via app:
Howdy!

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:37pm
doctorjazz:
Hi! Not working today, be in and out for the long distance subway ride!

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:38pm
northguineahills:
why do I suddenly want a Bud Light (David won't get that unless he watches American commercials)"dili-diili"

Tue. 9/11/18 4:47pm
still b/p:
For lunch I ate a soft pretzel stick, which is really like a burly hot dog bun in appearance, with some lentil veg soup, and it was pretty right. Pretzel Logic, Lunch Edition.

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Tue. 9/11/18 4:49pm
Webhamster Henry:
Gee, 6 hours, I guess I better put the Norwegian Train Trip on again . Maybe there's an Orient Express video so I can go through these eastern European cities.

Tue. 9/11/18 5:13pm
still b/p:
Some of the earlier selections put me in mind of Fiddler...and I was playing the Sunrise, Sunset melody half-assedly on one string of the guitar. I like lyricist Sheldon Harnick's story of the first times letting people hear Sunrise, Sunset - played for Jerrry bock's wife and then Sheldon's sister -- and they cried.

Tue. 9/11/18 5:16pm
Dean:
Not quite the same as in the original English.

[Joke.]

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Tue. 9/11/18 5:17pm
Webhamster Henry:
Harnick got a special Tony a few years ago .. and they gave it during the commercial , grrr!

Tue. 9/11/18 5:20pm
still b/p:
May Grandma Tzeitel give them a nightmare beatdown in their beds!

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Tue. 9/11/18 5:20pm
Webhamster Henry:
For those keeping track , We've left Schipol and are now switching to 25Kv electricity to accellerate up to 285 kph.

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Tue. 9/11/18 5:59pm
Webhamster Henry:
First you'd just use UTC, especially when scheduling international streaming events (like Continental Subway)... this would both be accurate and tell people it's an inter-temporal event! People can just ask their digital assistants to schedule it for them or translate the time.

Tue. 9/11/18 6:02pm
David D:
True, smartphones, computers, and the like could all just show us the current UTC. It would surely work very well in a rational world.

Tue. 9/11/18 6:06pm
David D:
But what do I know? I can't even get one of the computers in the main radio room to shut off. It keeps rebooting itself.

Tue. 9/11/18 6:06pm
Dean:
We should abandon the fiction of time as a cycle altogether, just start enumerating hours from now until doomsday. If we started today, then 43812 o'clock would be what we now refer to as tomorrow five years hence.

Tue. 9/11/18 6:10pm
David D:
Dean: Or introduce the 1000-minute day, as some have proposed.

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Tue. 9/11/18 6:14pm
Webhamster Henry:
People at the South Pole could get to choose their own timezones. (I think they go with New Zealand, where a lot of the supply planes come from).
A revolving door there would cross the international date line several times a minute: instant time machine.

Tue. 9/11/18 6:18pm
David D:
Henry: Yes, that was what I was thinking. Speaking of which, it is now the 26th of Fructidor over here.

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Tue. 9/11/18 6:28pm
northguineahills:
Metric time! Although I'd prefer we get a 35 workweek like France. David, when did Germany use the French Revolutionary calendar.

I want to hear the Kronos Quartet plays the works of Ian Mackaye.

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Tue. 9/11/18 6:31pm
Webhamster Henry:
Wikipedia says the french Revolutionary calendar "It was used in government records in France and other areas under French rule, including Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Malta and Italy."
It was pretty dead by 1805.

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Tue. 9/11/18 6:44pm
northguineahills:
Cool, kuba, your in the City, wish I could be up there.

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Tue. 9/11/18 6:46pm
kuba:
yeah! it's great, everytime i'm back... and i'm going to sound dorky, the air, the smells (all of them), the buildings, soo many people. love it. unfortunately only two days in the city this time

Tue. 9/11/18 7:20pm
still b/p:
Had a Vonnegut immersion when I was 15. Started with Slaughterhouse Five, then about five others in high school on my own and in class reading. Only a couple after that, though.
In a local park with someone much younger during a theater perfomance last summer, we saw a big asterisk spray-painted simply and roughly on the side of a large concrete pipe waiting to be installed in the ground, and then realized we'd both had the identical thought: the simple rendering looked like Vonnegut's depiction of the ol' human A-hole in his drawings for Breakfast of Champions.

Tue. 9/11/18 7:36pm
David D:
Greetings Jeff! Yes, BoC was a movie that got terrible reviews, but which Kuba and I both seem to think was okay.

Tue. 9/11/18 7:39pm
Jeff:
Just saw the trailer...looks more intriguing than I found the book. May be better suited to the medium than to print.

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Tue. 9/11/18 7:44pm
northguineahills:
@βrian: SUper duper happy bday! Also my wife's bday, and half of her design team lost their jobs today (including her). Four years ago she got laid off a week before her bday. (and we just renewed our Brooklyn lease two weeks ago)

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Tue. 9/11/18 7:53pm
Webhamster Henry:
Vonnegut: a bunch of his short stories were turned in to the PBS film "Between Time and Timbuctu", which is great. Happy Birthday, Wanda June and Mother Night are also out there as films.

But the time is right to make The Sirens of Titan - please cast Jeremy Irons as Winston Niles Rumfoord.

Tue. 9/11/18 7:53pm
still b/p:
Thanks for the late day accompaniment. Out for a friend's gig for a few hours.

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Tue. 9/11/18 7:55pm
northguineahills:
Thanks, at least since we got married, she doesn't have to rely on her work visa any more.

Tue. 9/11/18 7:56pm
David D:
Guys, I can play this again if you like...

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Tue. 9/11/18 7:58pm
northguineahills:
It is pronounced that way, I heard him pronounce it at BAM once.

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Tue. 9/11/18 8:00pm
Webhamster Henry:
Hey! Sirens of Titan is set to be a TV series!

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Tue. 9/11/18 8:00pm
βrian:
Yes, re Reich's name. I only discovered that after years of mispronouncing it.

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Tue. 9/11/18 8:00pm
melinda:
I never had a Vonnegut immersion. But I did fall for a Vonnegut fake-out in college. Someone wrote in chalk on the sidewalks of the Pentacrest (U of Iowa's equivalent a quad) that Vonnegut would be speaking there at a later date. After a large crowd had gathered the prankster responsible announced from the steps of the old capitol building that we were all suckers and ran off. I saved the campus newspaper photo of the assembled crowd.